Property from a Swiss Private Collection, Lots 630–637 formerly in the Rothschild Collection
Follower of Bernard Palissy, probably designed by Guillaume Dupré in collaboration with the atelier of Claude Berthélemy, French, first half 17th century
La nourrice (Nursing)
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February 7, 08:37 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Follower of Bernard Palissy, probably designed by Guillaume Dupré in collaboration with the atelier of Claude Berthélemy,
French, first half 17th century
Figure of a woman nursing an infant
seated wet nurse holding a suckling child wrapped in swaddling
glazed earthenware
height: 9 ¼ in.; 23.5 cm
Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1818-1874);
Stuart Lochhead Fine Arts, Ltd., 2012
This composition was originally believed to have been created by Bernard Palissy but has since been re-attributed to the atelier of Claude Berthélemy (1555-1626), who established a workshop at Fontainebleau in circa 1580 under the patronage of Henri IV. The Dauphin Louis de Bourbon purchased a number of figures from the Barthélemy studio, the details of which were recorded by the court physician, who noted that a pottery figure of a nurse was given by the Dauphin to the daughter of Madame de Montpensier on 24 April, 1608.
Two examples of this group are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, one formerly in the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (acc. no. 17.190.2057) and the second from the Emma A. Sheafer bequest (acc. no. 1974.356.303).